Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around

The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to 'think'.

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.

I’m proud to be Japanese and I wanted my country to succeed. I believed my system was a way that could help us become a modern industrial nation. That is why I had no problem with sharing it with other Japanese companies, even my biggest competitors.

No one has more trouble than the person who claims to have no trouble